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Definition of Disreputable
1. Adjective. Lacking respectability in character or behavior or appearance.
Also: Dishonorable, Dishonourable, Unrespectable
Similar to: Discreditable, Damaged, Discredited, Ill-famed, Infamous, Notorious, Louche, Shady, Seamy, Seedy, Sleazy, Sordid, Squalid
Derivative terms: Disreputability, Disreputableness
Antonyms: Reputable
Definition of Disreputable
1. a. Not reputable; of bad repute; not in esteem; dishonorable; disgracing the reputation; tending to bring into disesteem; as, it is disreputable to associate familiarly with the mean, the lewd, and the profane.
Definition of Disreputable
1. Adjective. not respectable, lacking repute; discreditable ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Disreputable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Disreputable
Literary usage of Disreputable
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Friends' Library: Comprising Journals, Doctrinal Treatises, & Other by William Evans, Thomas Evans, Edith R. Hall (1842)
"About this time, having heard with much sorrow of the disreputable failure of
... Dear friend, DS, " The disreputable and unjust conduct of I am persuaded ..."
2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... eighteenth century was that of a general demoralization which made them appear
all the more disreputable because the recent works of Christian scholars, ..."
3. The Life of Thomas Jefferson by Henry Stephens Randall (1871)
"... Outrages—Hamilton declares Ratification now disreputable—John Adams's View of
English Feelings towards America—Different Mettle of the Cabinet—Wolcott's ..."
4. History of the United States Secret Service by La Fayette Curry Baker (1867)
"... and the "Secret Secession Legation —disreputable Women in the Army—Collision
with Major-General on their ..."
5. A Treatise on the Police of the Metropolis: Containing a Detail of the by Patrick Colquhoun (1806)
"To disreputable Pawnbrokers.—And finally to ill-regulated Public-houses, and to
the Superabundance of these receptacles of idleness and vice. ..."
6. The Progress of Slavery in the United States by George Melville Weston (1857)
"Slave trading disreputable at the South. The suppression of the domestic slave
trade would find supporters in all the Southern States. ..."
7. Sinfulness of American Slavery: Proved from Its Evil Sources; Its Injustice by Charles Elliott, Benjamin Franklin Tefft (1851)
"Slavery makes labor disreputable in the slave states. The result of this is to
impoverish the white non-slaveholders, by deterring them from work. ..."
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